"Frank Drebin Franklin ""Frank"" Drebin is a fictional character in the ""Police Squad!"" series and ""The Naked Gun"" movies played by Leslie Nielsen. In 2008, Drebin was selected by ""Empire"" magazine as one of ""The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time"". In 2000, ""TV Guide"" named him to its list of the 25 greatest TV detectives, ranking him #23. He was also named by UGO.com as one of ""The 100 Best Heroes of All Time"". Frank Drebin is a member of Police Squad, a special department of the police force, where he served for many years. In the original"
"corresponds to the number of garbage cans that Frank's car crashes into when it arrives at the crime scene. Secondly, during each episode's epilogue sequence, either Drebin or Hocken states that the guilty party brought to justice is being sent to Stateville Prison – and lists all the characters sent there from previous episodes, in reverse order, where applicable. Leslie Nielsen portrayed Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant Police Squad. Jerry Zucker explained that the name Drebin was picked blindly from the phone book. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker had met Nielsen when working on ""Airplane!"" (1980) and felt their kind of"
"it was ""Telefon"" wherein people were triggered into assassins via hypnotic phone calls (indeed, dialogue in the post-hypnotic suggestion demonstration scene is copied word-for-word from ""Telefon""). On the case, Drebin falls in love with Ludwig's assistant, Jane Spencer (Priscilla Presley). She knows nothing about Ludwig's plot, and after the pair spend the night together, Jane helps with Frank's investigation. Frank discovers that Jane's new boyfriend, Quentin Hapsburg (Robert Goulet), is involved in an evil plan to kidnap Dr. Albert S. Meinheimer (Richard Griffiths), a scientist whom President George H. W. Bush (John Roarke) has chosen to determine a new national"
"humor matched. The team felt Nielsen would be perfect as Drebin as the character lampooned the roles Nielsen had played in television dramas such as """" and ""S.W.A.T."". Ed Williams co-starred as lab technician Ted Olson; Williams had been a science teacher for many years and had done a little acting. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker were amazed by his performance. Rex Hamilton was credited in every episode as ""Abraham Lincoln"", and the same clip of him was invariably played in the opening credits. However, he never appeared in the program, only in the credits. Of the main cast, Nielsen, Taylor,"
"resides in South Orange, New Jersey. He and his family are Unitarian Universalists. Andre Braugher Andre Keith Braugher (; born July 1, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Pembleton on the television series """" and in the television film """", as well as his roles as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the television series ""Men of a Certain Age"" and Raymond Holt on the sitcom ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine"". Braugher has received two Golden Globe Award nominations and ten Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning two). In film, he is best known for his supporting roles"
"Police Squad! Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, ""M Squad"" (especially the opening credits) and the late 1960s series ""Felony Squad"". Although cancelled after six episodes, the show spawned ""The Naked Gun"" film series. In 2013,"
"Richard Dubin Richard Dubin is an American professor at Syracuse University. Richard Dubin is a writer/producer/director who joined the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications faculty in the fall of 2000 after a long stint in network television. He has written, produced or directed primetime programs for ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. His studio affiliations include Disney, Warner Bros., Viacom, TriStar, HBO Productions, Fox TV, MTM; and he has had long term, exclusive business relationships with MGM and Columbia Pictures Television. Professor Dubin has been honored with many awards. For his work on the landmark CBS program, Frank's Place, he"
"Frank Pembleton Francis Xavier ""Frank"" Pembleton is a fictional homicide detective on the television drama series """" portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Andre Braugher. He is a primary character of the show through the first six seasons. Although the show featured an ensemble cast, Pembleton would become a fan favorite and is often identified by them as the show's signature character. He is based on Baltimore Police Department Detective Harry Edgerton, who, like Pembleton, was an eccentric New York bred African American detective in the BPD homicide unit featured in David Simon's book. """". The character also appeared in"
"comedians try to kill each other"". Katz points out that, after two previous confrontations, ""Freddy and Jason are extremely familiar with each other at this point. Maybe the only person they dislike more than each other is Ash."" While Jason wants personal revenge on Ash, Freddy's goals are ""a bit larger or ambitious in scope"". Katz says, ""[Freddy]'s looking to clear the board of any threat or nuisance before he launches his final gambit. I can promise relationships will evolve in some very interesting ways in this one."" He compares Ash's story in the series to Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie"
"Andre Braugher Andre Keith Braugher (; born July 1, 1962) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Frank Pembleton on the television series """" and in the television film """", as well as his roles as Owen Thoreau Jr. on the television series ""Men of a Certain Age"" and Raymond Holt on the sitcom ""Brooklyn Nine-Nine"". Braugher has received two Golden Globe Award nominations and ten Primetime Emmy Award nominations (winning two). In film, he is best known for his supporting roles in many successful films such as ""Glory"" (1989), ""Primal Fear"" (1996), ""City of"
"final case when Bayliss confesses to murdering serial killer Luke Ryland. Frank Pembleton Francis Xavier ""Frank"" Pembleton is a fictional homicide detective on the television drama series """" portrayed by Emmy Award winning actor Andre Braugher. He is a primary character of the show through the first six seasons. Although the show featured an ensemble cast, Pembleton would become a fan favorite and is often identified by them as the show's signature character. He is based on Baltimore Police Department Detective Harry Edgerton, who, like Pembleton, was an eccentric New York bred African American detective in the BPD homicide unit"
"marked a shift from dramatic roles to deadpan comedy. When it was suggested his role in ""Airplane!"" was against type, Nielsen protested that he had ""always been cast against type before"", and that comedy was what he always wanted to do. The same directors cast Nielsen in a similar style, in their TV series ""Police Squad!"". The series introduced Nielsen as Frank Drebin, the stereotypical police officer modelled after serious characters in earlier police series. ""Police Squad""'s opening sequence was based on the 1950s show ""M Squad"", which starred Lee Marvin, and opened with footage of a police car roving"
"in 2012 and ""A Family For All Occasions"" at the Bank Street Theatre in 2013. DeMunn is known for his collaborations with director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in films such as ""The Shawshank Redemption"", ""The Green Mile"", ""The Majestic"" and ""The Mist"". He also appeared in the 1988 remake of ""The Blob"", which Darabont co-wrote. He also narrated the audiobooks for ""Dreamcatcher"" and ""The Colorado Kid"". In 1995, he won a CableACE Award as Best Supporting Actor in a Movie or Miniseries for his portrayal of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo in the HBO film ""Citizen X"" and received"
"The Undertaker, who in storylines had previously vanished. Police Squad! Police Squad! is an American television comedy series broadcast on the ABC network in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, ""M Squad"" (especially the opening credits) and the late 1960s series ""Felony Squad"". Although cancelled after six episodes, the show"
"the heavy, and consequently his character very often died onscreen. In 1960, Merlin played Travers in ""Hell Bent for Leather"", and his other film credits include roles in ""Guns of Diablo"" (1965), ""The St. Valentine's Day Massacre"" (1967), ""Take the Money and Run"" (1969), ""The Twilight People"" (1972), ""I Escaped from Devil's Island"" (1973), ""The Slams"" (1973), ""The Hindenburg"" (1975) and ""Time Trackers"" (1989). Merlin had co-starring roles in two television series: from 1950 to 1953 as Cadet Roger Manning in ""Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"", and in 1959 as Lieutenant Colin Kirby in the ABC western series ""The Rough Riders""."
"Bill Fagerbakke William Mark Fagerbakke (; born October 4, 1957) is an American actor and voice actor. He is best known for his long-running roles as Patrick Star in the animated series ""SpongeBob SquarePants"" and Michael ""Dauber"" Dybinski on the sitcom ""Coach"". He also appeared in 12 episodes of the sitcom ""How I Met Your Mother"" as Marshall Eriksen's father Marvin. Fagerbakke, was born in October 4, 1957, in Fontana, California, and moved to Rupert, Idaho, as a youth. He graduated from Minico High School in Rupert in 1975, where he was a three-sport athlete for the Spartans in football,"
"""Wolverine"" miniseries that Miller penciled with writer Chris Claremont. Frank Miller (comics) Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book writer, novelist, inker, screenwriter, film director, and producer best known for his comic book stories and graphic novels such as ""Ronin"", ""Daredevil: Born Again"", ""The Dark Knight Returns"", """", ""Sin City"", and ""300"". He also directed the film version of ""The Spirit"", shared directing duties with Robert Rodriguez on ""Sin City"" and """", and produced the film ""300"". His film ""Sin City"" earned a Palme d'Or nomination, and he has received every major comic book industry award."
"well remembered as General Beringer in ""WarGames"", John Travolta's uncle Bob Davis in ""Urban Cowboy"", co-starring with Clint Eastwood in ""Any Which Way You Can"", or Roscoe Brown, July Johnson's bumbling deputy in the acclaimed Western ""Lonesome Dove"". From 1979 until 1984, he appeared in several episodes of ""Dallas"" as Sheriff Fenton Washburn. In 1983, Corbin co-starred in the famed television miniseries ""The Thorn Birds"". Corbin played Mary Carson's stockman Pete, who teaches the Cleary's sons how to shear sheep on their aunt's gigantic sheep station Drogheda, in Australia. In 1983–1984, Corbin played Merit Sawyer in the NBC television series"
"team of David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker as well as Pat Proft in varying combinations. Released on December 2, 1988, the film was a critical and commercial success, which led to two sequels: """" (1991) and """" (1994). Police Squad Lieutenant Frank Drebin, taking a vacation in Beirut, disrupts a conference of America's greatest enemies (Idi Amin, Muammar Gaddafi, Ayatollah Khomeini, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro, and Mikhail Gorbachev) who are trying to conceive a terrorist plan to humiliate the US. In Los Angeles, Officer Nordberg attempts to bust a heroin drug operation at the docks organized by dock's"
"Tattersall, and others. Also, Jeffrey DeMunn appeared in ""The Blob"" and ""Black Cat Run"", both of which Darabont wrote, Alexa Davalos appeared in the pilot episode of ""Raines"" that he directed and Amin Joseph first worked with Darabont on an episode of ""The Shield"" titled ""Chasing Ghosts"". ""The Woman in the Room"" (1983 film) and ""Buried Alive"" (1990) are not listed due to lack of collaborations. (Although Brian Libby appears in both.) Frank Darabont Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards"
"Father Felix in ""From Where to Eternity"", the 9th episode of the second season of ""The Sopranos"" and again in 2001 in ""Proshai, Livushka"" the second episode of the third season of the HBO hit series. McRobbie also garnered wide attention for his portrayal of John C. Twist in the motion picture ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005). From 2010 to 2013 McRobbie played the role of FBI Supervisor Frederick Elliot in 9 episodes of the HBO hit series ""Boardwalk Empire"". McRobbie plays George H. Pendleton in ""Lincoln,"" (2012) as Lincoln's most virulent and snarling opponent in the House of Representatives in relation"
"regiment in the Union Army. He played Kojak's sidekick in the late-1980s ABC television film revival of ""Kojak"". He subsequently moved on to a role on the television series """" as Detective Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective. Playing opposite Kyle Secor (who portrayed Detective Tim Bayliss), Braugher became the series' breakout star. He received Television Critics Association awards for individual achievement in drama in 1997 and 1998. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1998, winning in the latter year. He left ""Homicide"" after"
"John Philbin John Philbin (born April 27, 1960) is an American actor who is best known for his appearances in the films ""Return of the Living Dead"", ""Point Break"" and ""Tombstone"". Philbin began surfing at 12. He studied acting at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as being on the university's surf team. An accomplished surfer, Philbin has used this skill in films such as ""Point Break"", ""The Boost"", and ""North Shore"". Some of his other films include ""Children of the Corn"" and ""The Return of the Living Dead"" Philbin gives surf training to actors to prepare them"
"James Duval James Edward Duval (born September 10, 1972) is an American actor, who is known for his roles in the Gregg Araki trilogy—""Totally Fucked Up, The Doom Generation,"" and ""Nowhere""—in addition to Frank in ""Donnie Darko"", Blank in ""May"", Miguel in ""Independence Day"" and Singh in ""Go"". Duval was born in Detroit, Michigan. His family moved to California in 1974, where his sister, Terry, was born. He attended Gladstone High School in Covina (1986–89), as well as Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, and Fair Valley in Covina. Although, as a child, he was trained as a classical"
"retired from Police Squad and lives a seemingly happy life with his wife, Jane Spencer Drebin. Under the surface, however, Frank is unfulfilled acting as a househusband, and he and Jane attend marriage counseling. Six months after Frank's retirement he is visited by Ed Hocken and Nordberg, who ask for Frank's help with an investigation. Police Squad has caught wind that infamous bomber Rocco Dillon, who is currently incarcerated, has been hired by terrorists to conduct a major bombing against the United States. Frank remembers Rocco's girlfriend Tanya Peters from an investigation years ago and agrees to help Ed and"
"Frank Darabont Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as """", ""The Blob"" and ""The Fly II"". As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as ""The Shawshank Redemption"", ""The Green Mile"", and ""The Mist"". Darabont also developed and executive produced the first season and part of the second season of the AMC horror"
"in a comedy series. However, it only lasted for one season (1987–88). Although set in New Orleans, the series was actually filmed in Los Angeles. A short-lived crime series that debuted in 2007, which focused on the New Orleans police department in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The series also centers around two New Orleans police detectives, Anthony Anderson as Marlin Boulet and Cole Hauser as Trevor Cobb, who were partners that ""have conflicting ideas about how to handle the city's problems."" A crime drama series about a blind insurance investigator that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972"
"Walking Dead (1995) """" (1999), ""Double Take"" (2001), ""Undercover Brother"" (2002), ""John Q"" (2002), ""Scary Movie 3"" (2003), """" (2005) and ""Norbit"" (2007). In 2007, he starred in ""Urban Justice"", a thriller set in New Mexico. He also starred in the UPN television series ""Malcolm & Eddie"" (1996–2000). Griffin was ranked at number 62 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 Greatest Stand-ups of All Time. In 2011 Comedy Central released You Can Tell 'Em I Said It on DVD. It was 82 minutes of unedited and uncensored content. Griffin performed on two tracks from Dr. Dre's 1999 album, ""2001"","
"Clark Mathis Clark Mathis (sometimes credited as J. Clark Mathis) is an American cinematographer and television director. As a cinematographer, he photographed a number of notable films. His credits include the Disney Channel original film ""Gotta Kick It Up!"" (2002), ""In the Mix"" (2005), ""Rocky Balboa"" (2006) and Brian Robbins-directed films ""The Perfect Score"" (2004), ""Norbit"" (2007), ""Meet Dave"" (2008) and ""A Thousand Words"" (2012), the latter three films starring Eddie Murphy. He also photographed for the television series ""Cousin Skeeter"", ""The Fugitive"", ""Birds of Prey"" and ""Love Bites"". He made his directorial debut with the film ""Bereft"" (2004), co-directing"
"a semi-regular basis. He lent his voice as Anthony to the 2010 animated 3-D educational sci-fi adventure film """". In 2010, MTV listed Breslin as one of ""The 17 Coolest 17 Year-Olds from Around the World"". Breslin appeared as Max in the 2011 film ""Born to Race"". He then played Jason in the 2012 romantic comedy-drama ""Stuck in Love"". Spencer appeared alongside Abigail as Cousin Derek in the 2012 crime drama ""Perfect Sisters"". Breslin also began to work in other aspects of film making, serving as an executive producer on the animated ""Really Bad Movie!"" in 2013, as well as"
"Chris Kobin Chris Kobin is a screenwriter and film producer living in Los Angeles, California. Kobin, a graduate of Ridgewood High School (New Jersey), Macalester College and Loyola Law School, turned down an offer from a Century City law firm and became a car salesman while trying to break into Hollywood. The John Landis film """" was based on Kobin's experiences traveling the country staging ""slasher sales"". Kobin has produced the Made-For-TV Movies ""Payback"" ABC TV (1997), """" CBS TV(2000), and """" (2004). Feature Films which Kobin has co-written include ""2001 Maniacs"" (2005), ""Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror"" (2006), ""Driftwood"""
"directed ""They Won't Forget"", based on the Ward Greene novel ""Death in The Deep South"", which was in turn inspired by the Frank case. An episode of the 1964 TV series ""Profiles in Courage"" dramatized Governor John M. Slaton's decision to commute Frank's sentence. The episode starred Walter Matthau as Governor Slaton and Michael Constantine as Tom Watson. The 1988 TV miniseries ""The Murder of Mary Phagan"" was broadcast on NBC, starring Jack Lemmon as Gov. John Slaton and also featuring Kevin Spacey. The 1998 Broadway musical ""Parade"", based on the case, won two Tony Awards. In 2009, Ben Loeterman"
"Makin Trebolt (Kevin Michaels) to the crime Regan is forced to release Allen. When the private bank is robbed the Flying Squad arrives in time to confront the heavily armed robbers, against the orders of their boss Detective Chief Inspector Frank Haskins (Damian Lewis). After a long chase and shootout the robbers escape, with Makin deliberately shooting Nancy dead in front of an incapacitated Regan. A grieving Inspector Lewis uses the shootout as justification to suspend the entire Flying Squad. Determined, Regan obtains a fake badge and illegal weapon and interrogates a local thug, who unexpectedly confesses that Allen paid"